Avoid Dublin 22/06 - I'm in a Transit - Any tips?

MarkAnthony

So I'm moving some bits and bobs, not enough to get a mover so I've hired a Transit (Long WB or high roof). A Fiat 500L seemed like I was driving the USS Enterprise, so any tips other than emblazoning it with L and N plates and writing a sign on it warning people to stay away from me?

I may have to drive it down the Quays and past Connolly, which I'm not looking forward too. I might just try and stick to the M50. My biggest fear is so idiot cyclist in the blind spots tbh.

pablo128

MarkAnthony wrote: »

So I'm moving some bits and bobs, not enough to get a mover so I've hired a Transit (Long WB or high roof). A Fiat 500L seemed like I was driving the USS Enterprise, so any tips other than emblazoning it with L and N plates and writing a sign on it warning people to stay away from me?

I may have to drive it down the Quays and past Connolly, which I'm not looking forward too. I might just try and stick to the M50. My biggest fear is so idiot cyclist in the blind spots tbh.

Transits have blind spot mirrors under the main mirror.

MarkAnthony

This was amusing but not very helpful :P

CiniO

I'll be in Dublin on 23rd June.
Will you be finished by then or should I make amendments to my travel plans?

AMKC

What a silly video. A Transporter has all of them things that a Transit has and can do everything that a Transit can but is also a much more comfortable van to travel and sit in. Ok maybe the current Transit has more style but to sit in you feel like you are going to fall out of te window its just horrible the way they have the seat and doors in the transit.

MarkAnthony

AMKC wrote: »

What a silly video. A Transporter has all of them things that a Transit has and can do everything that a Transit can but is also a much more comfortable van to travel and sit in. Ok maybe the current Transit has more style but to sit in you feel like you are going to fall out of te window its just horrible the way they have the seat and doors in the transit.

I think that's the point.

SEPT 23 1989

by the time the day is over you will not want to give it back

BMJD

I used to drive a LWB Transit around the city centre doing deliveries as a summer job years ago, be grand. Those flashy orange lights give you permission to park anywhere.

Supergurrier

Once you take the extra length of the lwb into account when turning you will find it fine OP.

Just have somebody with you to help reversing ?

Id prefer to drive a transit than most cars

CiniO

My advice would be to use the mirrors as much as possible.
You might not feel the width of the van at start, but by looking in the mirrors you will clearly see its position on the road (f.e. comparing to lines painted on the road) and you will get used to it.
With blind spots - again - try to observe mirrors at all times to be aware what's around you and behind you.
Then you won't be surprised by something in your blind spot as you will already know there was something there which you can't see now so it must be in a blind spot.

Nekarsulm

Passenger is handy if you are coming to junctions with a road at an acute angle to the left.

otherwise, just drive it like you stole it

Truckermal

Im genuinely worried for you op you are better off hiring a man with a van, it will be safer for the rest of us anyway..

MarkAnthony

Truckermal wrote: »

Im genuinely worried for you op you are better off hiring a man with a van, it will be safer for the rest of us anyway..

Not according to quite a bit of my dashcam footage

You've been warned take the day off :pac:

MarkAnthony

As easy to drive as my 500! 100% agree with the poster saying you won't want to give it back. I wasn't even that hard to park!

I thoroughly enjoyed blasting a moron in 4x4 out of it at the level crossing near Ongar. He decided he'd been waiting too long at the crossing and tried to jump the lights as I had a green.

Thanks again all!

BMJD

safe to come out, yeah?

punisher5112

Did you take the sides off the van yet clipping anything alongside....
:-D

vandriver

Every Irish driver should have a few days in a van to learn how to use mirrors.

MarkAnthony

vandriver wrote: »

Every Irish driver should have a few days in a van to learn how to use mirrors.

The mirrors are great, the visibility was better than in my car. I wonder if I can get some transit mirrors fitted to a fiat 500!